❤️❤️ The Universal House of Justice, 22 April 1996 – [To an individual]

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❤️❤️ '...the knowledge of God is the cause of spiritual progress and attraction, true vision and insight...'

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Some Answered Questions, Part 5: Miscellaneous Subjects: 84. Good Deeds and Their Spiritual Prerequisites

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❤️❤️ ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, Talks in New York, Montclair, and Jersey City, 11—20 May 1912: 47

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❤️❤️ 'Bear thou witness in thine inmost heart unto this testimony which God hath Himself and for Himself pronounced, that there is none other God but Him...'

Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh: XCIV

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❤️❤️ 'In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential.'

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Paris Talks, Part Two: 41. The First Principle—Search after Truth

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❤️❤️ 'Illumine, O Lord, the faces of Thy servants, that they may behold Thee; and cleanse their hearts that they may turn unto the court of Thy heavenly favors...'

Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations: LVIII

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❤️❤️ 'Today the Bahá’í community is distinguished by a mode of operation characterized by study, consultation, action, and reflection.'

The Universal House of Justice, 28 November 2023 - To the Bahá’ís of the World

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❤️❤️ 'Behold a beautiful garden full of flowers, shrubs, and trees. Each flower has a different charm, a peculiar beauty, its own delicious perfume...'

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Paris Talks, Part One: 15. Beauty and Harmony in Diversity

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❤️❤️ 'There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them.'

The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, 3. Excerpts from the Persian Bayán

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❤️❤️ 'Concerning the means of livelihood, thou shouldst, while placing thy whole trust in God, engage in some occupation. He will assuredly send down upon thee from the heaven of His favor...'

Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh

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❤️❤️ 'Strive, therefore, to create love in the hearts in order that they may become glowing and radiant.'

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, Talks in Boston, 23—25 July 1912: 84

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❤️❤️ 'Rely as much as thou canst upon the True One, and be thou resigned to the Will of God, so that like unto a candle thou mayest be enkindled in the world of humanity...'

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Extract from a Tablet of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá

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❤️❤️ 'Say: O people! Let not this life and its deceits deceive you, for the world and all that is therein is held firmly in the grasp of His Will.'

Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh: CIII

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❤️❤️ 'Were it not our purpose to be brief and to develop our primary subject, we would here set down a summary of themes from the divine world, as to the reality of man and his high station...'

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization

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❤️❤️ 'Ignite, then, within their hearts the torch of Thy love, that its flame may consume all else except their wondrous remembrance of Thee...'

Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations: LVIII

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🌹❤️ Happy Twelfth Day of Ridván to all our Bahá’í friends and family all over the world!

Today commemorates Bahá'u'lláh's last day at the Garden of Ridván before He begins His exile to Constantinople.

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❤️❤️ 'The nature of that band of people, the words they speak, the deeds they do, will unleash the bestowals of Heaven, and provide a foretaste of eternal bliss.'

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, sec. 39, p. 81

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❤️❤️ 'Do thou meditate on that which We have revealed unto thee, that thou mayest discover the purpose of God, thy Lord, and the Lord of all worlds.'

Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh: LXXIX

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❤️❤️ 'Every day, in the morning when arising you should compare today with yesterday and see in what condition you are...'

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Star of the West, Vol. 8, No. 6 (24 June 1917), p. 68

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🌹❤️ Happy Ninth Day of Ridván to all our Bahá’í friends and family all over the world!

Today commemorates the day Bahá'u'lláh's family arrived to join Him in the Garden of Ridván.

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